The cheap green lie
You are told that solar and wind are cheap
But you need near-100% backup when no sun or wind, paying for two systems
Data for 2025 shows that
cramming in more solar and wind makes electricity overall more and more costly
Sources:
Electricity prices, households and industry, 2025
https://t.co/PL7VLsWEj0
Solar and wind generation, electricity use and consumption weights
https://t.co/UwbARcLQLZ
Solar and wind for countries without IEA 2025 data
https://t.co/6ENBBTiX8U
Electricity trade partners, plus industry prices for Norway, Albania, Iceland and Kosovo
https://t.co/tZseguHWvK
US industry price
https://t.co/pntNuPKaom
Australia, IEA 2021 prices updated with official price indices
https://t.co/823vWh7fYM
South Africa industry price
https://t.co/PVXyNbAufM
Taiwan industry tariff
https://t.co/4Z4Z5uIRDE
Egypt industry tariff
https://t.co/DATO1VjJ79
Tunisia tariffs (archived copy, the STEG site is unreachable)
https://t.co/3ok2JcNl0v
Azerbaijan industry tariff
https://t.co/qy98JgcA8s
2025 tariff changes applied to IEA 2024 prices
Pakistan: https://t.co/OjOmi72MrH
Thailand: https://t.co/h6p9wnjjHD
Ghana: https://t.co/lKqEfjewAd
Paraguay: https://t.co/orDgQjmqvu
Kazakhstan: https://t.co/RbRWH84A8G
GlobalPetrolPrices 2025 averages for 18 countries, read from archived 2025 pages
https://t.co/JSI6UOLhY5
https://t.co/3y0tOwiYXL
Sri Lanka 2025 tariff changes
https://t.co/hoLkLOCZNa
Indonesia solar and wind estimated from official 2025 capacity
https://t.co/OmvGySOEQa
Statista 2025 averages for China, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Singapore, Peru, Argentina and South Africa (data from GlobalPetrolPrices)
https://t.co/A6cH7YAQRi (business prices worldwide)
https://t.co/1htjZIC3Os (household prices worldwide)
https://t.co/Gfi3ahxcUn (Latin America business)
https://t.co/SndvbDIcVt (Latin America households)
https://t.co/zwux5DXfUh (China business)
https://t.co/s578PWUmDo (Mexico business)
https://t.co/fGgK1jhThT (Mexico households)
https://t.co/yJqaqksKER (South Africa households)
This is dishonest, which isn't surprising.
For example, Disney had a one-time NON-CASH benefit that reduced their REPORTED income tax expense for the year. This is a result of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), not from their corporate tax return.
I'm going to assume that the other examples are similarly dishonest.
From the Disney annual report:
"In fiscal 2025, the Company completed the acquisition of NBCU’s interest in Hulu. At the close of the transaction, Hulu’s U.S. income tax classification changed, and the Company recognized a non-cash tax benefit of approximately $3.3 billion."
Elon Musk: You can tell which side is the good side and which side is the bad side by which side wishes to restrict freedom of speech
The side that is restricting freedom of speech you know, that would have been the Hitlers, Stalins, and Mussolinis of the world
They had very strong censorship, very strong restrictions on speech. That’s one of the signs that they’re the bad guys
In fact, a restriction on speech and large government is fundamentally fascist, obviously. So ironically, in pushing for censorship, it makes it very clear that the left is the side that is against freedom
Freedom of speech is simply one of many freedoms that we should have as a civil society because ideas should win on the strength of their arguments. They should not win because they are suppressed
@UncleDisney@GppPos1 If you are basing it on QB performance instead of team performance, then Josh Allen is the obvious choice.
https://t.co/cPlNXsoO0j
When Michael Phelps was a kid, I set goals for him that were 8 to 10 years out (I've coached him for 20+ years).
And I could also tell you what I wanted him doing every single day of the next year. You need both of those, because they do different jobs. 🧵